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Higer has been round for years in Europe, for 2025 it’s specializing in EV buses, triggers extra R&D spending
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – CleanTechnica missed the opening days of Busworld 2025 attributable to logistical points and purple tape, so it is a post-launch report on Higer unveiling its electrical V Collection coaches for the European market at Busworld. The launch passed off on October 4. The Chinese language bus maker offered three fashions it developed over a three-year program.
The lineup contains the V12E Professional luxurious coach, the V12E vacationer coach, and the V13E intercity coach. The fashions have been developed utilizing the Built-in Product Growth (IPD) course of and European market analysis.
The V12E Professional is a 12.4-meter luxurious coach designed for long-distance purposes. The automobile has a claimed vary of 500 kilometers per cost, powered by a 399.91 kWh battery pack. The battery system contains nitrogen safety and a thermal administration air-conditioning system.
The battery carries a 15-year or 1.5 million-kilometer guarantee.
One exhibit mannequin was configured for an Icelandic buyer with 55 seats and wheelchair accessibility.
The coach operates at a noise stage 2 decibels under European requirements. Options embrace aisle seats with lateral slide adjustment, premium carpeting, ambient lighting, and pull-down curtains. A wheelchair raise is built-in beneath the mid-door step.
Higer states the V12E Professional is the primary 12-meter electrical coach with baggage compartment capability exceeding 10 cubic meters.
Modular platform design
The V Collection makes use of a modular platform scalable from 8 to 14 meters and suitable with electrical, diesel, and hydrogen powertrains.
Leo Zheng, Higer Govt Vice President, stated the design achieved a 58 p.c discount in element sorts. The construction options an openable entrance wall, SMC composite bumpers, and a central entrance panel for element entry.
The coaches embrace area management expertise for clever upkeep and distant analysis capabilities.
European operations
The V13E intercity mannequin shall be delivered to clients in France after the exhibition.
Higer inaugurated its first European components heart and repair station in Luxembourg on July 7, 2025. The power was opened with Chinese language Ambassador to Luxembourg Hua Ning, Luxembourg’s Minister of Financial system Lex Delles, and different officers in attendance.
Luxembourg acquired seven Higer Azure electrical buses for intercity strains in late 2024. The components heart was established to cut back supply occasions and improve service responsiveness for European clients.
The corporate plans to ascertain further components facilities and a European coaching facility.
Gary Jiang, Normal Supervisor of Higer Abroad Gross sales, stated world gross sales of the V Collection have surpassed 5,000 models, with automobiles working in additional than 30 nations.
Higer has exhibited electrical buses at every Busworld occasion since 2017, beginning with a supercapacitor metropolis bus, adopted by the Azure collection in 2019 and the FENCER F1 electrical bus in 2023. The V Collection represents the corporate’s fourth consecutive electrical automobile launch on the biennial commerce present.
In 2024, Higer achieved a turnover of $962 million, with 64 p.c of revenues from exports and greater than 68,000 buses working worldwide.
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